Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-020"
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"Mr President, I believe that economic and social cohesion will make or break the future of the European Union, the Union of 25. Enlargement will reveal dramatically once again the complete lack of practical responses to an objective on which the European Union and the Treaties preceding it were founded. We need only to think of a survey conducted a few years ago, which showed that Lombardy was one of the top 20 wealthiest regions while Sicily, my homeland, was in seventy-seventh place. This shows just how far we are in practice from the objectives of achieving a proper, sound, tangible economic and social cohesion policy.
There has been no strategy, no will to take practical measures, no polycentric Europe. Southern Italy and the Mediterranean have been left on the fringe of a genuine growth and stability strategy. The problems are not only due to geographical remoteness, which would, alone, be grounds for huge-scale, effective measures, but there is also an incredible lack of infrastructure, a lack of planning in the areas of training, technological innovation research and improving the universities in marginal regions.
Therefore, we need to preserve the European Union’s minimum intervention threshold, we need to stem the flow of people leaving mountain areas, we need to intervene in disadvantaged islands, which are disadvantaged not only because of their distance from mainland Europe but also because of inherent problems to which Europe must find an immediate solution."@en1
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